Reform Party of Canada

The Reform Party of Canada was a conservative political party in Canada that existed from 1987 to 2000. The Reform Party was founded as a protest movement in western Canada, and it became a populist party with strong social conservative elements, originally focusing on enacting democratic reforms and opposing the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada under Brian Mulroney. In 1993, the party became the largest in western Canada, surpassing the PCs. However, the Liberal Party of Canada's victory in the 1997 election and the failure to gain followers in eastern Canada demoralized Reform Party supporters, and the party merged into the Canadian Alliance in 2000.